Star Wars Rebels Season Three (spoilers)

[JD]

Yes. She was born 4 years before TPM, Kanan was born the year before TPM.

^Aside from that, Ahsoka passed her Padawan trials right at the start of the clone wars while Kanan wasn't apprenticed to Depa until relatively late (a few months before Order 66 IIRC), so there's a few years between them in terms of experience as well as age.
Well, about a year anyway. The way the timeline seems to shape out, Ahsoka was only with Anakin for about a year and a half give or take.

Ok, for some reason I was thinking he was quite a bit older than that.
Does anybody know if there's a specific reason they don't have Rebels on Netflix? All of the Clone Wars is on it, Rogue One is now on it, and there are several other Disney XD series on there, so there's plenty of related stuff there.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I was always quite confused about how "years" are measured in the SW galaxy, especially with regard to people's births on multiple worlds which clearly have different orbital cycles. Is the standard galactic year based on the Coruscant year or some other agreed-upon measurement? This has always kind of confounded me for a very long time.

 

[Ithekro]

Coruscant standard based on it having been the capital planet for many, many millennia.

 

[Reverend]

Coruscant standard based on it having been the capital planet for many, many millennia.

I tend to think Coruscant time and dating is probably something that's mostly used the way we use UTC. It's ubiquitous for record keeping and communicating between time-zones (planets), but outside of the core worlds and the military, nobody actually uses it in their everyday lives.

I picture each region/sector of the galaxy having their own calendar which is derived from some shared local culture or history.
Like say, the thousand or so systems that make up Mandalorian space would all use the Mandalorian calendar, because all those worlds were either colonised or conquered by Mandalore. The same would apply for the Alderaan sector, Corellian worlds, Hutt controlled space (past and present) etc. etc.
There would always be numerous exceptions of course with some cultures being determinedly independently minded (or else too new to galactic civilisation to have assimilated to that degree) and each planet may have it's own quirks (like whatever Tatooine's "seasons" entail) that lead to many times many variations of the same root calendar.

Some planets may even have more that one "official" calendar. On Naboo for example, I doubt the Gungans use the same Calendar as the human population. On Jedha, with it's many religions which probably means at least as many dating systems, some of which may be prominent in other parts of the galaxy, others entirely unique to that world.

 

[Tuskin38]

ABY and BBY was actually used in-universe a canon reference book, but a disclaimer at the start said it was the in-universe authors personal dating system for convenience and not a galactic one.

I think there was a mention of an ancient calendar in one of the recent Dr. Aphra comics, one that was used by a particular sect of Jedi in their time, but hadn't been used for thousands of years prior to the formation of the Prequel era Republic.

Lothal also has its own calendar system.

 

[137th Gebirg]

It does make the most sense that Coruscant standard time is handled like our UTC/Zulu time. Very good analogy there. Fits perfectly.

 

[Tallguy]

It's not that Rebels isn't on Netflix. It's that Rebels isn't ANYWHERE.

 

[JD]

Do you mean for free? They do have the single episodes and whole seasons for sale on digitally on Amazon and Google Play.

 

[Tallguy]

Do you mean for free? They do have the single episodes and whole seasons for sale on digitally on Amazon and Google Play.

Well, I mean as part of any service that anyone pays for.

I own all of them on Amazon, but that doesn't help when I ask folk "Do you watch Rebels?"

 

[DimesDan]

I think Sky has them on their on-demand service.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

IIRC from what Pablo Hidalgo has said, the CW movie picks up about 8 months after AotC, and that Ahsoka left the Jedi about a year prior to RotS.

If the war lasted 3 years, simple math has it that she was with Anakin for about sixteen months. That's less than half the war. You might be able to push it to eighteen or even twenty if one were to propose that the war lasted 3 years and change, but that's about the limit.

That doesn't seem right to me. More than just the fact that Ahsoka HERSELF actually grows quite a bit during the series, it doesn't seem to me like you could fit all of the events OF the series into just 18 to 20 months. I had actually assumed something like six months to a year per season (leaning towards six months since so many of those episodes are mini-arcs that all run back to back) which would put the total timespan at 3 to 5 years.

So I kind of agree with you that the BBY calendar doesn't tell us much. OTOH, I would be surprised if the Clone Wars lasted less than 7 or 8 years, to be honest. A galaxy-wide conflict with literally MILLIONS of soldiers involved would take a fairly long time to sort out, IMO.

 

[Reverend]

That doesn't seem right to me. More than just the fact that Ahsoka HERSELF actually grows quite a bit during the series, it doesn't seem to me like you could fit all of the events OF the series into just 18 to 20 months. I had actually assumed something like six months to a year per season (leaning towards six months since so many of those episodes are mini-arcs that all run back to back) which would put the total timespan at 3 to 5 years.

Remember that the series was conceived as an anthology, which means some events were concurrent and a fair chunk of it was told out of order. So trying to equate seasons to the passage of time isn't going to be terribly accurate.

As for Ahsoka, they've always said she aged from 14 to 16 over the course of the show, which lines up perfectly well and people of that age are known for growth spurts.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

As for Ahsoka, they've always said she aged from 14 to 16 over the course of the show, which lines up perfectly well and people of that age are known for growth spurts.

HUMANS of that age are known for growth spurts, yes.

I suppose maybe she drank a lot of blue milk and her lekku started developing early...

 

[Skywalker]

Glancing again at that snapshot of Pablo's unofficial internal chronology, Ahsoka turned 15 just days before the events of the TCW episode "Rookies," which took place fairly early into the war. Although that could have been a typo or a mistake and he later went back and changed it to 14.

 

[Reverend]

HUMANS of that age are known for growth spurts, yes.

I suppose maybe she drank a lot of blue milk and her lekku started developing early...

For all we know Togruta grow even faster than humans. It's not like we have any point of comparison.
Honestly, there isn't *that* much difference between her original design and the one they switched to part-way through season 3. She's a little bit taller, a little less scrawny and the proportions of her face were adjusted so her eyes didn't seem quite so big.

Indeed, just look at how tall she is fully grown in Rebels. Assume for a second that like most humans she stopped growing at around 18 and all of a sudden, it's a wonder she isn't even taller by the end of those few years.

Glancing again at that snapshot of Pablo's unofficial internal chronology, Ahsoka turned 15 just days before the events of the TCW episode "Rookies," which took place fairly early into the war. Although that could have been a typo or a mistake and he later went back and changed it to 14.

This is exactly why he doesn't publish it. It's going to be riddled with all kinds of inconsistencies that can only serve to hamper further storytelling.

 

[The Wormhole]

I would be surprised if the Clone Wars lasted less than 7 or 8 years,

Disney canon has been emphatic about it being three years. IIRC, it's mentioned in several of the Disney novels.

 

[Ithekro]

It was always considered three years since Attack of the Clones came out because of the dating system placing the events of TPM at 32 BBY and Attack of the Clones being 10 years later per Anakin's talking about not seeing Padme in that long. So the war starts in 22 BBY and Luke/Leia are established as 19 in A Hew Hope by using Carrie Fisher's age at that time (rather than Mark Hamill's age), the Clone Wars having to needed to ended by around their birth to give the Obi-wan/Vader story intact (which they did) I would have thought it would have continued on a little bit to allow for Leia to have memories of her mother, and for them to flee Vader during the purge (rather than the purge and birth be literally within a week from each other at the most).